[Users] Can't open ovirt console using Spice or VNC - help!

[David Jaša]

On Ne, 2014-02-09 at 19:00 -0500, Drew Showers wrote:
> I did not see that and it works, thank you! Looks like I need some UI
> driver help though.
> 
> Running the script actually helped me get to the root cause... Can't access
> the host name error. Of course it couldn't, I don't expose that host name
> outside the ovirt network. I was on my wireless network. Once I plugged
> into the ovirt net it worked. Duh!
> 
> Do you know of any spice graphic packages that don't need to be compiled?

remote-viewer from virt-viewer package is the client you want.

David

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Den 9 feb 2014 20:00 skrev Drew Showers <drew at augurworks.com>:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm a nube with ovirt, but have the ovirt-engine and 1 remote host up
> > and running (separate physical servers, same subnet). The network, DNS. NFS
> > all work. I can create VM's, install the ISO OS with no problems. Here is
> > were I get stuck.
> > >
> > > After a frustrating few hours trying to get a console to launch on my
> > mac,
> >
> > Have you seen this?
> >
> > http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X
> >
> > /Karli
> >
> > I broke down and created a new Centos 6.4 Desktop VM using Fusion. I've
> > installed -
> > >
> > > spice-xpi (yum install spice-xpi)
> > > virt-manager (yum install virt-manager)
> > >
> > > Using Firefox, if I try to open the console from the ovirt admin using
> > Spice browser plugin or native client options, nothing happens (no errors
> > either), other than message saying the user is initiating a console
> > session.
> > >
> > > If using VNC, then it wants to either download the console.vv or open it
> > with the default viewer, which throws and error "Unable to connect to the
> > graphics server file"
> > >
> > > So, I'm stuck in going any further until I get this worked out. No VM IP
> > or host name  (unless I'm missing something)... I actually find this quite
> > unfriendly. I know similar issues have been discussed previously, but none
> > have solved my problem. BTW: I'm running Centos 6.5 on both the engine and
> > host.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if I'm missing additional packages or what. Any help would
> > be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Drew
> >
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